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010 _a 2005909729
020 _a9781586171421 (alk. paper)
020 _a1586171429 (alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocm64695686
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050 0 0 _aBR 115.W6
_bB36 2006
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100 0 _aBenedict
_bXVI,
_cPope,
_d1927-2022.
240 1 0 _aEuropa di Benedetto nella crisi delle culture.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aChristianity and the crisis of cultures /
_cJoseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) ; introduction by Marcello Pera ; translated by Brian McNeil.
260 _aSan Francisco :
_bIgnatius Press ,
_c2006.
264 _3©2006
300 _a116 pages ;
_c21 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_btxt
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_bn
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_bnc
_avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _aIntroduction by Marcello Pera: A Proposal That Should Be Accepted -- The Crisis of Cultures -- Reflections on Cultures That Are in Conflict Today -- The Significance and Limits of Today's Rationalistic Culture -- The Permanent Significance of the Christian Faith -- The Right to Life -- Why We Must Not Give Up the Fight -- The Law of the Jungle, the Rule of Law -- We Must Use Our Eyes! -- What DOes It Mean to Belive? -- Faith and Everyday Life: A fundamental Human Attitude -- Can Agnosticism Be a Solution? -- The Natural Knowledge of God -- "Supernatural" Faith and Its Origins -- Development of Premises -- The verification of faith in life -- Faith's "I", "you, and "we"
520 _aWritten shortly before his election to Papacy, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger addressed the crisis of culture that is evident in Europe today, and the Western World in general. Some of the results of the crisis are greater threats to security, growing poverty, the danger of genetic engineering, and a decline in moral energy. The Christian roots and foundation of Western civilization are being replaced by "modern Enlightenment philosophy", observed Cardinal Ratzinger. Such philosophies recognize God's existance or objective truth, these philosophies consequently reduce morality to relative concept, leading to a "confused ideology of freedom that leads to dogmatism" and ultimately "to the self-destruction of freedom", cautioned Cardinal Ratinger. What Cardinal Ratzinger offered then –and what Pope Benedict XVI is offering now– as an answer to the nihislic secularization that pervades Europe and the West, is not politics, but a spiritual renewal, a renuewal similar to that of Saint Benedict and the members of His Order who combined holiness and love for the truth which ultimately helped save a similarly declining Europe from cultural collape.
650 0 _aChurch and the world.
650 0 _aChristianity
_y20th century.
650 0 _aSpiritual life
_xCatholic Church.
650 0 _aSecularism.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0608/2005909729.html
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